vendredi 23 mai 2008

Here at the office, I have the chance and the pleasure to work with my great friend Vincent.Of course, we often need to be able to quickly share files or folders with each other. And it sucks.It's really a shame but we're in 2008 and sending a file to someone on the local network is still a PITA.

Here comes Woof.Woof (Web Offer One File) is a single-python-file webserver that will happily serve - just one time (or more) - a file or a folder on a random port.It's a quick and easy way to share files with other people in the same room.

I was pretty happy with it, but Vincent is lazy, saying that having to open a terminal, starting woof.py and then copy/pasting the URL to someone was too much...

Ok. fine. Here comes GNOME Do...

With this plugin, you will be able to quickly send any file or folder to any Pidgin contact present on your local network. It will automatically send the URL to your contact :

I tried the latest dll located here: http://thelama.free.fr/files/gnome-do/plugins/ as linked in the official wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Plugins/Woof). In the gnome-do preference panel, you can only install v1.0.